Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because it suited my purposes to stay close to you . |
| 2 | My Lords to come back to what it said at the end , and this is what the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan mentioned , it talks about one of six regional short listing panels . |
| 3 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 4 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 5 | Hundreds of motorists abandoned their cars to dash across to a local radio station after a DJ offered scores of free tickets to the band 's concert . |
| 6 | Some financial planners have worked out another loophole , telling their clients to hang on to the part of their income paid in company shares , because taxes on capital gains are unlikely to rise under President Clinton and may even fall . |
| 7 | At the other end , Charity smiled and waited for her listeners to come back to her . |
| 8 | Her knees were weak , and she sat down on a chair the press rep brought over for her ; she could not have trusted her legs to walk over to it . |
| 9 | Apparently Katharine is now bullying her parents to go back to Catherston for some more lessons ! |
| 10 | In a broadcast speech on July 26 marking the 38th anniversary on the assault on the Moncada barracks , a landmark in the Cuban revolution , President Fidel Castro called on the population to redouble their efforts to stand up to the continuing economic blockade by the United States and to the economic and political collapse of the Eastern bloc , characterizing the latter as a " disaster " [ see p. 38229 ] . |
| 11 | The FAA voluntary reporting system was retained and continues to work well for routine incident reports , while the NASA administered anonymous system made great strides but suffered from the inability of its operatives to refer back to those reporting the incident to obtain amplification of the circumstances or to ask supplementary questions . |
| 12 | ‘ But the difference now is that the profits go back into the game and the WRU are to be congratulated on their decisions to tap in to the funds that are available . ’ |
| 13 | George Kirkham sent out an appeal to all Anglo-Burman Associations asking their members to go back to Burma in this spirit , and demanding no special safeguards . |
| 14 | How happy she would be now , if she could turn her head and see him there , and reach out her arms to hold on to him and pull him close . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough is urging its residents to jump on to the recycling bandwagon . |
| 16 | Industry does not stand still and the trend nowadays is for employers to expect their employees to respond positively to the demands of the enterprise . |
| 17 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 18 | He has just seen that the ultimate aim of the caseworker must not be to casework at all , but to get his cases to face up to caseworking themselves . |
| 19 | Mansell , who also revealed that he 'd been offered more than twice his wages to go back to Ferrari , added : ‘ Ayrton 's spoiled , always has been — even when he was a kid kart racer . |
| 20 | He allowed his papers to drop on to the cabin floor , and his eyes lit up with interest . |
| 21 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 22 | I was mentally calorie counting every time , it took me ages to get back to a sort of normal life . |
| 23 | Do the same at intervals throughout the roof on occasional joists , rafters , purlins and trusses — and you must get down on your knees to reach right to the eaves and wall-plates . |
| 24 | Brussels wants our lorries to slow down to European limits and our own law-makers plan restrictions that vary with the size of the truck . |
| 25 | He was sitting in the little hut where you bought your tickets to get on to the Big Wheel . |
| 26 | If you are giving massage , you need to develop the ability to tune-in , as it were , to the needs of your partner , allowing your hands to move intuitively to any tender spots in his or her body and to soothe away the pain . |
| 27 | To go to bed , we take off our shoes , then our socks to get back to the original state of bare feet . |
| 28 | If you want your students to listen intensively to a dialogue , do n't do it on video . |